Tuesday, December 29, 2009

adidas Skateboarding recently released a new video of their team skating it up in San Francisco. The three minute long video features riders such as Dennis Busenitz, Tim O’Connor, Mark Gonzales, Silas Baxter-Neal, Benny Fairfax, Vince Del Valle, Dave Bachinsky, Pete Eldridge, Lem Villemn and Nestor Judkins. Directed by Juice Design and filmed by Dan Wolfe and Eric Noren, check out this video to see the pros in action!

In 1949, the year I was born, Harry Truman was President; Grady the Cow, at 1,200 pounds, gained national attention for getting stuck inside a farm silo in Yukon, Oklahoma; South Pacific opened on Broadway; the first Polaroid camera was sold in New York; Hopalong Cassidy became the first network western; Mao Tse-Tung proclaimed the Communist People’s Republic of China; and J. Edgar Hoover gave Shirley Temple a tear gas fountain pen. Sixty years later, the Smithsonian emailed me that I’d been selected to exhibit in the National Portrait Gallery.

By the time I was five, my parents already sensed that paint and piano belonged in my path. They knew music was good for the visual synapses, and wisely started me on piano fresh out of kindergarten. My mom peeled potatoes while I practiced on an old upright in our basement.

This survey is MoMA’s first major exhibition since 1938 on the subject of this famous and influential school of avant-garde art. Founded in 1919 and shut down by the Nazis in 1933, the Bauhaus brought together artists, architects, and designers in an extraordinary conversation about the nature of art in the age of technology. Aiming to rethink the very form of modern life, the Bauhaus became the site of a dazzling array of experiments in the visual arts that have profoundly shaped our visual world today.

The exhibition gathers over four hundred works that reflect the broad range of the school’s productions, including industrial design, furniture, architecture, graphics, photography, textiles, ceramics, theater design, painting, and sculpture, many of which have never before been exhibited in the United States. It includes not only works by the school’s famous faculty and best-known students—including Anni Albers, Josef Albers, Herbert Bayer, Marianne Brandt, Marcel Breuer, Lyonel Feininger, Walter Gropius, Vasily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, László Moholy-Nagy, Lucia Moholy, Lilly Reich, Oskar Schlemmer, and Gunta Stölzl—but also a broad range of works by innovative but less well-known students, suggesting the collective nature of ideas.

Museum of Modern Arts.11 West 53 Street New York, NY 10019(212) 708-9400Bauhaus exhibition will be up from November 8, 2009–January 25, 2010

Saturday, December 26, 2009

Please join us for a night of Great Hip Hop, BFS invites all of you, Sunday Jan 10 2010 7pm, a listening session for our homies Phonetic, DefDom & other performances. Jerseys Finest. FREE GIVEAWAYS and much more.Click Flyer for more detail.BFSSHOP LOCALLY....

WORXlife Winter Collection 2009 now available Exclusively at The BlackFlag Shoppe. Everything is in limited quantities, make sure to stop by and pick yours up today! Happy Holidays from all of us at The BlackFlag Shoppe and WORXlife crew.

What's up peoples, we have been very busy getting ready for the Holidays hence the "lack of blog posts" but its only to bring you a better and stronger BFS for 2010. To have & enjoy more good times with all of you, We are grateful for all of the support thus far. Greatly Appreciated.Here is a preview of winter drop this week!! Just in time for the Holidays.BFSSHOP LOCALLY.....

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Volcom NYC is organizing a benefit art show & silent auction for good friend Andy Kessler who passed away this summer from complications due to an allergic reaction to a wasp sting he suffered near Montauk where he was spending the summer surfing and helping a friend get off drugs. The Andy Kessler Memorial Foundation was established to carry over his dedication to create quality skateparks in NYC and to help people with substance abuse problems. So many great artists have responded to the open call for the benefit art show and donated amazing works of art for the silent auction. If you are around, please come by. We appreciate if you can spread the word! Hope see you there!

Sunday, December 6, 2009

Yes sir, movie night at BFS haa, a Great turn out, the homies all came out to enjoy D.J. Willfords Video Premiere of "Trife Life" which documents his Journey across the country with nothing more then a skateboard and a camera. Jam Packed footy from westside back to the eastside. Trife Life is Available at the shop $15, please visit BFS for more info.Thanks to all the homies who came out and made it a great night. It was a blast.More Good Times Ahead!!BFSSHOP LOCALLY.....Billy, Rich, Christian, and D.J. WillfordsCongrats to the the Winner of our Raffle.

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Our Family at WorxLife will be releasing their Winter Drop, Here's a Sneak preview of whats ahead, Available Only at The Blackflag Shoppe, Stay tuned for The Blackflag Shoppe X WorxLife collabo coming soon!!BFSSHOP LOCALLY.....